During his Hardcore Minecraft marathon with Kai Cenat on August 21, 2024, popular streamer IShowSpeed discovered Cristiano Ronaldo's newly launched YouTube channel. As a dedicated fan of the footballer, the content creator was thrilled and immediately envisioned a collaboration with the Al-Nassr star on the same platform.
IShowSpeed is a known Ronaldo fanatic, with Kai Cenat once calling him a "Ronaldo billboard" for constantly buying things such as cars and chains styled after the Portuguese player. The 19-year-old was initially shocked upon learning that his idol had started a YouTube channel. However, this quickly turned into excitement at the prospect of a potential collaboration.
He couldn't contain his enthusiasm as he subscribed to Ronaldo's channel and kept shouting about the possibility of working together:
"Can we collab? Can we collab? Can we collab? Sui! Subscribed."
"He's about to beat my subs": IShowSpeed reacts as Cristiano Ronaldo launches YouTube channel
IShowSpeed has been doing a Minecraft marathon with Kai Cenat for about four days (at the time of writing). However, the two have also been taking ample breaks as they try to finish their challenge.
On August 21, 2024, when the news about Cristiano Ronaldo's YouTube channel broke, the streamer had quite the reaction. The YouTuber recently hit the 28 million subscribers milestone on the platform, and when he realized that the famed footballer had started a channel, his first reaction was that of panic.
The content creator claimed that Ronaldo was going to beat him in subs:
"Wait, oh my freaking god, oh my god. This is Cristiano Ronaldo? Oh my god, oh my god! Ronaldo just made a YouTube channel? Ronaldo made a YouTube channel, oh my god. He's about to beat my subs! He's about to beat all of my subs."
Cristiano Ronaldo's YouTube channel has seen a huge influx of subscribers from the moment the news started circulating online.